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Where we share everything from exciting product updates and real-world case studies to behind-the-scenes stories of our journey - all focused on helping dev teams thrive!

Finding the Unknown Unknowns: Why your PR review bots are failing

July 25, 2025 - Matt Kindy

The Limits of Known DefensesIn our previous post, "Avoiding Integration Bugs: Beyond SDKs & Contract Testing," we explored the common defenses teams use to prevent services from breaking each other i...

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Avoiding Integration Bugs: Beyond SDKs & Contract Testing

July 9, 2025 - Matt Kindy

You're working at a fast-moving startup. Speed is everything. You refactor an API, update the consumers you know about, ship it... and then Slack explodes. An obscure downstream service you didn't ev...

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Serverless Isn't Magic: Taming the Distributed Monolith & Other Cloud-Native Headaches

June 12, 2025 - Matt Kindy

Forget servers, they said. Embrace the future of the cloud with serverless, where scaling is automatic, costs are optimized, and you can finally focus purely on writing code that matters. This vision...

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Embrace Complexity: Practical Patterns for Distributed Systems (And How to Get There)

May 21, 2025 - Matt Kindy

Microservices! The promised land of independent deployments, team autonomy, and glorious scalability. You dove in headfirst, breaking up the monolith, feeling the wind of agility in your hair... unti...

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Designing Dev Tools with Cognitive Load in Mind

April 23, 2025 - Matt Kindy

As software systems grow more complex, the mental demands on developers intensify. A single development task might require understanding service boundaries, database schemas, API contracts, infrastru...

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The Hidden Costs of Just-In-Time Architecture

April 23, 2025 - Matt Kindy

The software industry has embraced "shift left" thinking across many domains. In security, we've moved from end-stage penetration testing to embedding security practices throughout the development li...

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From Code to Context: Feature Location for Modern Development

April 23, 2025 - Matt Kindy

Every software developer knows the frustration: you're tasked with fixing a bug or adding a feature, but first, you have to find the relevant code. In today's complex, distributed systems, this seemi...

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